Ukraine's top military commander says he has visited troops holding the front line in the key eastern city of Pokrovsk besieged by Russian forces while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy grapples with a corruption scandal that has engulfed his administration.

After Zelenskiy's justice and energy ministers quit on Wednesday amid the investigation into alleged energy sector graft, the government fired the vice president of Energoatom, the state-owned nuclear power company believed by investigators to be at the centre of the kickback scheme.

The heads of Energoatom's finance, legal and procurement departments and a consultant to Energoatom's president were also dismissed in the clear-out, Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said.

A Kyiv court has begun hearing evidence from anti-corruption watchdo

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